HB Surreal Health Blog

It is natural to lose hair and is part of the body’s way to renew itself. The list of all the possible causes is exceedingly long but it is a common problem that affects millions of men, women, and children. Alopecia is the general medical term for hair loss of any type. The most common type of hair loss in men is genetic; known as male pattern baldness, it affects close to 95 percent of males.

If your hair loss is more moderate, however, it’s possible your nutrition and diet have a something to do with it. Other reasons can the result of hormonal imbalance, stress or mental tension, chemicals or perhaps a cosmetic reaction. Permanent loss usually occurs when the hair follicles themselves are damaged. Surprisingly, women account for nearly 4 in every 10 sufferers in America today; so it is not, as commonly thought, a male problem.

Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. By the age of sixty, four out of every ten women in the world will have experienced some loss. However, many women experience hair loss during and after pregnancy. If you always thought that patterned hereditary baldness was a male problem then you will be surprised to learn that in America approximately 30 million women also suffer from this condition.

People who suffer with permanent hair loss now have a relatively new but popular treatment called surgical hair restoration which is considered to be the ultimate solution to an increasing problem. Simply put, it is the transplantation of healthy hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another. The process only requires local anesthesia and is carried out on an out-patient basis but has become one of the most regular forms of hair restoration for men. Many women are now deciding on hair transplant surgery as a method to hide scarring cause by facelifts for example.

When you are having hair transplant therapy it may be tempting to try and change your appearance but the best course of action is to try and stay as much like your original appearance. Before hair restoration is undertaken, the patient’s whole-body status must be considered and any underlying health problems addressed. While cosmetic surgery does include hair restoration as one of its sub-fields, this is a different form of cosmetic treatment available. Fortunately, the science of hair loss and hair restoration is constantly advancing, so if you do not respond to other medical treatments, surgical hair restoration may be the only truly permanent solution to baldness.

When you have made the decision to have the hair transplant surgery, most likely you will be considering your arrangements after the procedure. You will be eagerly awaiting the reaction of everyone you know when they see you after the operation for hair grafting is complete. In the meantime, you have to have the surgical procedure and be careful that your hair transplant will work out.

Keeping yourself out of the sun after surgical procedure will help in the healing process. The skin surrounding the hair trasplant will be sun tender and less likely to heal if you expose it to the direct sunlight. If you’re careful to look after your scalp’s skin following a scalp hair transplant, you’ll be able to heal quite a bit quicker. You can start out by getting some kind of hat and it does not matter what kind of hat it is, as long as it is fairly loose-fitting so that it does not rub on your new hair transplant grafts. This is something you will not have to deal with for very long and after a couple of weeks, you will be able to replace the cap with some sunblock still, it will need to have at least 30 of SPF.

Having just the right amount of blood flow to the hair transplant sites will make a big difference in how fast they heal. For instance, you may want to use rests to elevate your head to ensure that your blood flow is steady during the night. Your usual pillows can be used, or you can buy wedge-shaped pillows made for this purpose. Even so, you should try to get plenty of respite after the hair transfer surgical process to avoid high blood flow. During the initial several weeks it is a bad idea to participate in any physically challenging events since the blood flow will be too heavy and bleeding might come from your transplant area.

It is important to clean your hair just as your physician recommends after hair transfer surgical procedure so you will be given a special shampoo to use and specific instructions on how and when to use it. You need to clean gently and thoroughly, because you may be rinsing your hair several times a day, so be certain not to harm the hair transplant by scratching or rubbing.

A week after your surgical procedure, it is procedure for the doctor to ask you to come in for a check up of the transfers. Make sure you arrive for that appointment on schedule because this is the time to ask anything you may be curious about caring for your hair. Ask your doctor when you will be ready to use a comb on your new hair because you might be surprised at how soon you can use one. The physician should then agenda future check-ups, something you should attend. At first it may seem as if you have to be very careful with your hair - and you do but it does not make sense to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars having your hair transfer surgical process and then not follow through with good care. But in a short time you will handle your new hair the same way you handled the hair that used to grow there.